Google Faculty Summit 2010
July 29, 2010

ABSTRACT

Presented by Eric Grosse.

Earning people's trust while making the world's information accessible is a security and privacy challenge of unique scale. We'll look at some of the major risk, architectural and operational issues in protecting your data, including which aspects of the software development lifecycle, access control, and detection systems get greater emphasis here compared to traditional environments.

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Google Tech Talk
February 15, 2011

Presented by Steven J Wallach, Convey Computer Corp.

ABSTRACT

HPC research is focused on achieving ExaFlop/ExaOP performance by 2020. Unlike reaching a PetaFlop, the general consensus is that vastly new programming paradigms, hardware architectures, and interconnects will be needed (as well as new power plants). This presentation will be focused on increasing uni-processor performance and the roles played by application specific heterogeneous computing and compilers in evolving processor architecture.

Steven J Wallach is a founder of Convey Computer Corporation and is an adviser to venture capital firms CenterPoint Ventures, Sevin-Rosen and InterWest Partners. Previously, he served as vice president of technology for Chiaro Networks Ltd., and as co-founder, chief technology officer and senior vice president of development of Convex Computer Corporation. After Hewlett-Packard Co. bought Convex, Wallach became chief technology officer of HP's Enterprise Systems Group. Wallach served as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Simulation and Computing Program at Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1998 to 2007. He was also a visiting professor at Rice University in 1998 and 1999, and was manager of advanced development for Data General Corporation. His efforts on the MV/8000 are chronicled in Tracy Kidder's Pulitzer Prize winning book, "The Soul of a New Machine." Wallach, who has 34 patents, is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, an IEEE Fellow, and was a founding member of the Presidential Information Technology Advisory Committee. He is the 2008 recipient of IEEE's prestigious Seymour Cray Award.

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Google Tech Talk (more below)
May 20, 2009

Full Title: "An Internet for Bulk Content Delivery, not Communication: or solving the effects produced by ISP's traffic shaping policies"

Presented by Pablo Rodriguez.

ABSTRACT

The Internet is witnessing explosive growth in traffic, in large part due to bulk content transfers. Treating such delay tolerant traffic as interactive communications is expensive for ISPs because they dimension their networks based on peak levels of utilization, e.g., the 95th percentile. To limit such costs, many ISPs today are considering traffic shapers at the edge of their networks that rate-limit the bandwidth consumed by bulk ows. Unfortunately, due to the offsets in the local peak hours of utilization at different network links, bulk transfers traveling sufficiently far will be throttled by various ISP between the source and destination resulting in very poor end-to-end rates. To reduce the impact of such problems I will introduce a novel Internet architecture for bulk transfers that significantly reduces operational costs and increases end-to-end transmission rates.

Speaker Info: Pablo Rodriguez

Pablo Rodriguez is the Internet Scientific Director at Telefonica. Prior to Telefonica he was a Researcher at Microsoft Research, Cambridge. While at Microsoft he developed the Avalanche P2P system and worked in worked in very popular services, such as Windows Updates, FolderShare, or Xbox live.

During his early research career Pablo worked as a Member of Technical Staff at Bell-Labs, NJ where he developed wireless data acceleration solutions and new content distribution systems. Prior to Bell-Labs, he worked as a software architect for various startups including Inktomi (acquired by Yahoo!) and Tahoe Networks (now part of Nokia). He received his Ph.D. from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL, Lausanne). During his Ph.D. he also worked at AT&T Labs (Shannon Laboratory, Florham Park, NJ). He obtained postgraduate studies from King's College, London and an a B.S. / M.S. in Telecommunication Engineering at the Universidad Pública de Navarra, Spain.

He is the keynote speaker for WWW'09; the General Chair for ACM/SIGCOMM '09; a member of the editorial board for IEEE / ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), and editor for ACM Computer Communications Review SIGCOMM/CCR and IEEE/JSAC. He is also a steering committee member for IEEE / HotWeb.

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Adam Grant talks about his experiences using Ext, a new Javascript library for creating advanced UI controls (like grids, trees, progress bars, etc.)

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